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Infant Vision

François Vital-Durand, Janette Atkinson, and Oliver J. Braddick

Abstract

This book provides an overview by international authorities, spanning the disciplines of neuroscience, psychology, ophthalmology, optometry, and paediatrics, of normal and pathological infant visual development. It covers the development of retinal receptors; infant sensitivity to detail, colour, contrast, and movement; binocularity, eye movements, and refraction; and cognitive processing. Childrens' visual deficits, including amblyopia and cataract, are covered.

Keywords: neuroscience, psychology, ophthalmology, optometry, paediatrics, infant visual development, retinal receptors, binocularity, eye movements, refraction

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1996 Print ISBN-13: 9780198523161
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198523161.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

François Vital-Durand, editor
INSERM U371 Cerveau et Vision, Bron

Janette Atkinson, editor
University College London

Oliver J. Braddick, editor
University College London

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Contributors

Part I Basic Coding of Spatial and Chromatic Vision

1 Development of contrast sensitivity in normal and amblyopic monkeys

Lynne Kiorpes

2 Development of the visual field: results from human and animal studies

Ruxandra Sireteanu

3 Development of primate rod structure and function

Anne Fulton, Ronald M. Hansen, Elizabeth Dorn, and Anita Hendrickson

4 Assessing dimensionality in infant colour vision

Kenneth Knoblauch, Michelle Bieber, and John S. Werner

5 Spatial and temporal properties of infant colour vision

David C. Burr, M. Concetta Morrone, and Adriana Fiorentini

6 Development of visual motion processing

John R. B. Wattam-Bell

Part II Refraction and Resolution

7 Basic considerations when refracting infants

Frank Thorn

8 Using near retinoscopy to refract infants

Frank Thorn, Jane Gwiazda, and Richard Held

9 Prediction of myopia in children

Jane Gwiazda, Joseph Bauer, Frank Thorn, and Richard Held

10 Issues in infant vision screening and assessment

Janette Atkinson

11 Photorefraction for the detection of amblyogenic defects: past and present

M. R. Angi, and E. Pilotto

12 The Rotterdam C-chart: visual acuity and interocular acuity differences in very low birth weight and/or very prematurely born children at the age of 5 years

J. van Hof-van Duin, and J. W. R. Pott

13 Acuity cards and the search for risk factors in infant visual development

François Vital-Durand, Louis Ayzac, and Gabriel Pinzaru

Part III Oculomotor and Binocular Processes

14 Striate cortex, extrastriate cortex, and colliculus: some new approaches

Oliver Braddick, Janette Atkinson, and Bruce Hood

15 Eye alignment and convergence in young infants

Louise Hainline, and Patricia M. Riddell

16 Eye-head relations in neonates and young infants

I. Carchon, and H. Block

17 Development of binocularity and its sexual differentiation

Richard Held, Frank Thorn, Jane Gwiazda, and Joseph Bauer

18 Dioptric blur, grating visual acuity, and stereoacuity in infants

Paulette P. Schmidt, Ivan C. J. Wood, Sarah Lewin, and Helen Davis

19 Evaluation of sensory visual development based on measures of oculomotor responses

Cathy Buquet, and Jacques R. Charlier

Part IV Perception, The Brain, and Clinical Applications

20 The organization of visual perception in early infancy

Alan Slater

21 Pattern processing in infancy: hemispheric differences and brain maturation

S. de Schonen, C. Deruelle, J. Mancini, and O. Pascalis

22 Practical application of the visual evoked potential in paediatric neuro-ophthalmology

Patricia Apkarian

23 MRI findings in children with cerebral visual impairment

G. Cioni, A. E. Ipata, R. Canapicchi, B. Fazzi, and J. van Hof-van Duin

24 Occlusion therapy for childhood amblyopia: current concepts in treatment evaluation

Merrick J. Moseley, and Alistair R. Fielder

25 Visual development following treatment of a unilateral infantile cataract

Ronald G. Boothe

26 Visual development in children with congenital cataract

A. Sjöströtm, M. Abrahamssom, E. Byhr, and j. Sjöstrand

27 Visual instrumentation for use with visually deficient children: the Point Mobile

Serge Portalier, and François Vital-Durand

End Matter

Index